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Canada set for 2017 Women's Rugby World CupOrangeville BannerTORONTO - Canada, runner-up at the Women's Rugby World Cup this summer, is one of seven teams granted automatic qualification for the 2017 tournament. World Rugby, formerly known as the International Rugby Board, says the top seven teams from the ...

TSNCanada drops to No. 9 in FIFA women's rankingsTSNTORONTO - Canada has fallen one spot to No. 9 in the FIFA world women's soccer rankings. North Korea vaulted past the Canadian women in the latest list, jumping four places to No. 7. Germany moved into top spot, relegating the U.S. to second spot.

rabble.ca (blog)Canada-EU trade deal: A bad trade for womenrabble.ca (blog)Natural resources, agriculture and related productions operations (the bulk of CETA's job creation), have the largest gap between public and private wages: women make on average $11,000 more per year in the public sector in these industries than they ...

President Obama made his final press conference memorable by only taking questions from female reporters. Elsewhere, ISIS militants attacked women in the western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar before burying them in mass graves in Fallujah.

In this excerpt from "Fifty Over Fifty: Wise and Wild Women Creating Wonderful Lives (And You Can Too!)" the author urges readers to prepare for rising longevity by reading about women such as our own founder, Rita Henley Jensen.

Canada.comBeyond Beyoncé: What feminism looks like in 2014 (video)Canada.comCombined with a loud, ongoing conversation about sexual assault, about rape culture, about the famous men who get away with hurting women, about women in video games, about #YesAllWomen, about abortion access in Canada, about the safety of ... But here ...

In a country where the pill has long dominated, women are now turning to other options, including less reliable "natural" methods. At the same time, abortion rates may have gone up last year, partly due to the pill controversy. Story reported with Hajer Naili.

Twenty years after a major conference on reproductive health urged better sexual and reproductive health for global teens, a study offers disappointing statistics. Among the remedies: responsive parents and interventions aimed at those aged 10-14.

"There's one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you," the estranged husband at the center of this case posted on his Facebook page. We hope the court will agree that women need protection from this kind of threat.

The story of these dolls starts on Dec. 26, 2004, when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit and devastated the lives of hundreds of thousands of people across several countries in Asia. The doll comes from a unique recovery effort in Pondicherry, one of the worst hit states in India.

Last month, a French delegation went to Geneva with the European Women's Lobby to push an abortion-related resolution at the upcoming Beijing+20 Summit. With this and other efforts France is developing a profile as a European leader on abortion rights.